TOO MUCH!!!What IS that thing on the first cake? A lasagne noodle???NOW I know what to grab when I'm searching frantically for something to write on when I'm taking a phone message!And, come ON--please tell us what's under that censoring slab!Dirty minds want to know!=^~~^=

These are my favorite kinds of wrecks. Anyone can make a lousy balloon - I know, I've seen them! - but it takes some special zen to write what you see without overthinking it. Thinking "They want it to say WHAT!?" never crosses their empty little minds. I admire that.

I don't dare say, "Now I've seen it all," because I know that come Monday I'd have to take it back. That first cake looks a little odd just by itself, but the inscription makes it downright hilarious. As for the second one, what on earth was that Wreckerator thinking? Were they really that dense or was this a lame attempt at something witty? At least the balloons turned out nice for a change... *remembers wrecked balloons from previous posts and shudders*

I don't think these were mistakes or accidents. I think they were passive aggression.

Or possibly the wreckerators got slammed with a ton of orders and after doing hundreds of orders for hours on end just stopped reading what they were doing and started copying whatever they were given without thought.

I could see myself VERY tempted to do what the second one did if I worked in a bakery... I would find it very annoying to come up with things for other people's cakes/cookies, etc. That said I would never do it - I don't have the guts.

Sometimes I wonder if supermarkets/chain bakeries just hand over the writing tasks to someone who doesn't speak/read English very well, but has (comparatively) better handwriting than the rest of the staff. I mean, all they have to do is write whatever is in the box, so it's not *usually* necessary to actually understand what the words mean.

The huge number of cake wrecks you manage to find never ceases to amaze me! It is really hard to believe that there are that many "non-thinking" people in this world...and these are only the ones in the bakeries and cake shops. Just think how many other kinds of wrecks there are out there. On second thought, I don't want to know!!!

Meagan asked about the yelllow fruit in the brown husk on the first cake. They are called "Goldenberries" and are native to South America. Rather hard to find in the States, though, but you can locate them in places such as Wholefoods. They resemble yellow grape tomatoes, but have a sweeter taste. You can eat them out of hand or put them in salads.

Ok, first off, if someone wants fruit on the cake, isn't it usually peeled and sliced? It looks like the wreckerator just put a whole apple, orange, lime on there."It's not like the specified HOW the fruit was supposed to be on the cake, jeeze! What am I a mind reader?"And the lasanga noodle, touche!

Ahhh, so it is! The beginning of a *fancy* "F" and the swooping tail end of a "k." But, huh? "Fork" doesn't rhyme with "truck." You *must* be wrong. >^u.u^<***@ Sarah:"...all they have to do is write whatever is in the box, so it's not *usually* necessary to actually understand what the words mean."

I might agree on some (where over the rainbow) level...But there is no way people should have to pay good money for something that is all ****ed up.If the employees can't "speak/read English very well" then the stores should (novel idea) hire people who CAN.So much to ask?

When looking at these, and others like them that say exactly what was written in the "inscription" section of the order form, I wonder if the decorator doesn't speak English, and was just following orders, trying to do a good job. Like the picture on the Cake Wrecks home page that says "Under Neat That." Why would someone write that if they knew what the words they were writing meant? I think in many of these instances, they are just doing what they are told.

The second one totally deserved what they got. We should expect decorators to have nice, legible writing and to execute our ideas as nicely as they can. There isn't any way for a decorator to know what the customer will find funny, especially with such a bad attitude in making their request.

well, the first one is from a chinese supermarket bakery we have in canada..and i have a feeling the reason the cake has fruit and such on top is because for the most part all their cakes look like that..hahaha. in general, fruit is a standard on asian cakes. but the little tag is just too funny !

Anonymous said... "I love the first one. If the lasagne noodle is removed, its very pretty!"***

Its WHAT is very pretty?heh heh... Anyway... MOST of us, I hazard to assume--do not have X-ray vision.I only have the ability to cast my own personal gaze across what looks like brittle, dead leaves (mmm, crunchy), slimy peach and pear chunks, and maybe a black olive.Yeahyummy.=^>.<^=

Five minutes later and I am still laughing at the second cake. It's like some kind of a prank that a baker would pull on one of their regular customers or their friends because they know the customer would take it in very good humor.

Several people have already offered their interpretations of what the glistening yellow ball surrounded by the dried-up brown stuff is. To me, it looks like an egg yolk nestled in a cast-off snakeskin. In a word, YUCKERS!

Flat Top, eh? Maybe the villainous Flattop had the cake specially made for Dick Tracy. If the sight of it doesn't do the detective in, the "fruit in the middle" (a ticking pineapple, no doubt) certainly will.

My fiance: "Well they got what they ordered, didn't they? I don't see a way you could logically prove that the cake shop didn't give them exactly what they asked for. Provided your baker is an android with a poorly-programmed AI."

the "lasagne noodle" is a marzipan plaque. i used to work at a pretty upscale dessert place that never wrote on cakes directly, but instead used the plaques...and the funny thing is, they are usually prepared ahead of time, and separately from the cake. meaning that someone probably made it as part of that day's prep, and then someone ELSE put it on the cake when they boxed it up. a two-step wreck.

I don't think people who have English-as-a-second-language should be blamed for #2. It's not up to the bakery (or decorator) to decide on an inscription. If you're too lazy to be bothered with saying *exactly* what you want written, well...you deserve what you get. "Something funny"? Is it a going away, a birthday, a congratulations, what?

I never took an inscription order *exactly* like number two...but there were times I WAS tempted to write "I don't know, whatever you want" on some poor person's birthday cake because the person ordering it couldn't be arsed to think of even the most basic sentiment. Of course, management had no spine, so it would have just been a waste of a cake.

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